True Love

I don’t know if this inspired the previous post , or I was inspired to write this one because of my thoughts from the previous…
Well a couple of days ago , I just Googled True Love to see what I could find …as you can very well imagine ..i didn’t’ find a lot of insightful stuff…then I thought I would look it up on Wikipedia ..and apart from having to read the lamest wiki ever ( on the topic of Love ) ..I also found out that there isn’t a Wiki on True Love ( a very elusive entity I guess !!!) Update: It seems a link did get added between today and day before!!!


However,I did find this discussion on EDGE( cool site .check it out!)… Prominent researchers were asked to answer the question “ What do you believe is true ,even though you cannot prove it ?”. It had to be related to their area of research I presume; So David Buss a Psychologist and faculty at the University of Texas, Austin and author of The Evolution of Desire goes on to say this :

True love.
I've spent two decades of my professional life studying human mating. In that time, I've documented phenomena ranging from what men and women desire in a mate to the most diabolical forms of sexual treachery. I've discovered the astonishingly creative ways in which men and women deceive and manipulate each other. I've studied mate poachers, obsessed stalkers, sexual predators, and spouse murderers. But throughout this exploration of the dark dimensions of human mating, I've remained unwavering in my belief in true love.

While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many—the mesmerizing attraction, the ideational obsession, the sexual afterglow, profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, has no barriers or boundaries. It's difficult to define, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically wooly. But I know true love exists. I just can't prove it.

I also chanced upon these lines after a long time. I’ve read them before but heard them again at a friends wedding, they just so much struck a chord in me at the time; that I wrote them down and pasted it in the wall of my old apartment. After I changed flats , I think I wasn’t such an idealist and the piece of paper disappeared .Anyway I shall repost these famous lines from the Bible here :

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (English-NIV)


If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.